Doc-U-Lib: Usage

Contents

• Logging In
• Navigating
• Read/View an Entry
• Uploading
• Uploading
• Moving
• Viewing all
• Searching
• Logging Out

Some Notes!

1. If you use the "back" button on your browser whilst navigating the tree then you could see a screen which is not in sync with the database. Refreshing/reloading will sync things. To avoid this feature, navigate using the links only --- except that some pages, such as that reached from get history are dead ends currently and the back is required at this point. Feedback on these "features" is welcome.
   
   
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Finding DocULib

DocULib is currently to be found at

http://scallywag.iss.umist.ac.uk/doculib.html

1. Choose a tree by clicking on the drop-down list on the right;
2. enter your Username and Password;
3. read the Message of the "Day";
4. click on Enter!

Assuming the username/password combination are accepted, the browser is sent a cookie as part of the authentication procedure and, given sufficient permissions/privileges, a screen similar to that in Figure 1 will be displayed. (The only significant differences are: the Location and Parent fields will show "/" and "At Root", respectively.)

Each Tree has a structure just like a directory system in Unix or MS Windows --- that of an upside-down tree. At the top is the root (which, in retrospect, should probably have been called the trunk, but never is); below are the branches.

At any point the in tree (except the top --- root --- and bottom) one can move up by clicking on the Parent link (near the top of the screen) --- "Root" in Figure 1 --- or down, by selecting on of the bulleted Branch links (below the Readme which, in turn, is below the ISD icon) --- "Cron", "Init" and "new_dir" in Figure 1.

Reading/Viewing an Entry

The Entryies are displayed below the Branch-links. In Figure 1 there is just one Entry, thing. To view/download the Definitive and View-Only versions of the document simply "click" (or "shift-click") the appropriate links.

To see access any previous versions of the Entry, "click" on the get history link at the bottom of the Entry.

Uploading a New DocULib Entry

Uploading a New Version of a DocULib Entry

Moving an Entry to a Different Branch in the Tree

Only Administrators can do this!

One can view a list of names of all Entries in a Tree. Names can be listed "by structure" and by "rev cron": the former attempts to reflect the tree's structure by grouping Entry-names by Branch; the latter lists Entry-names in reverse-chronological order (i.e., newest at the top).

Currently there is no explicit logout. (The cookie used for authentication remains set until your browser is exited.)